We recently received this e-mail (sic) from K Miller: I’m an “Independant” and I find it absolutely appalling that a newspaper would actually endorse a political canidate in any party. From this point forward, I will discontinue purchasing your paper. In fact, I will make it a point to let your patrons know that I […]
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Probably nobody who reads this column is also a regular reader of the Los Angeles Times, so you might think there’s no reason for you to be concerned that a big newspaper on the West Coast just fired its third editor in less than three years. But folks who read columns published on the op-ed page […]
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When the quarterly report on my retirement fund came in the mail the other day, I didn’t want to open the envelope. You don’t have to check the balance of your 401(k) to know the economy’s in trouble. For that matter, you probably don’t need to read the newspaper to know that we’re in tough economic […]
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A: Issac Asmiov’s Super Quiz returns to the Times Union comics pages on Monday, Jan. 21. We’ve certainly received many very thoughtful letters, calls and e-mails. Until we heard from you, we had no idea that families and co-workers were gathering to do the quiz, and this was a daily ritual. (Co-workers, we hope this […]
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More changes are coming to the feature sections of the Times Union: This note from Tracy Ormsbee, senior editor/features: The Life pages in the Times Union will look different beginning this week. We’ve added new features and changed the focus of some of our sections to give readers more of the things they’ve told us […]
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Being all things to all people is a task not well-suited to the contemporary newspaper. It’s better left to, say, the shmoos. You do remember the shmoos, don’t you? If you’re over 35, you probably recall the comic strip “L’il Abner,” featuring a country bumpkin and the people around him in Dogpatch, USA. For four decades, […]
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We’ve received several calls in the last 2 weeks that The New York Times Crossword puzzle clues were faint, thus tough to read in the Sunday paper. It wasn’t a printing press issue as some of you informed us, because type on the rest of the page was just fine. We needed change the program […]
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A number of readers have complained about Sunday’s Parade magazine cover and interview with Benzair Bhutto before she was assassinated. Parade magazine is printed several weeks ahead of time, and not by the Times Union. This particular issue (Jan. 6) went to press on Dec. 21, according a story by the Associated Press. It was already being shipped […]
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